festo-edcon

festo-edcon

festo-edcon is a python package which bundles modules to facilitate operation of Festo electric drives (currently via EtherNet/IP and Modbus) using PROFIDRIVE. Documentation can be found here and in the examples directory

Installation

Release

The latest release is available in the public PyPi repo. Install via pip:

pip install festo-edcon

To install with GUI support:

pip install 'festo-edcon[gui]'

From git repo

You can also install directly from the git repo.

• Clone the repository

git clone <git-url> <destination>

• Change into the clone directory

cd <destination>

• Install via pip

pip install .

Usage

MotionHandler - edrive.motion.MotionHandler

The motion module which aims to replicate the function set of the Siemens SinaPos function block (both using telegram 111).

ComModbus - edrive.com_modbus.ComModbus

The Modbus/TCP communication driver used for transmitting modbus traffic between host and drive.

ComEthernetip - edrive.com_modbus.ComEthernetip

The EtherNet/IP communication driver used for transmitting EtherNet/IP traffic between host and drive.

Profidrive - profidrive

Contains telegram definitions that are currently supported by EDrives running PROFIDRIVE via Modbus/TCP and EtherNet/IP:

• Telegram 1
• Telegram 9
• Telegram 102
• Telegram 111

CLI - cli

festo-edcon

Main entry point to the CLI.

usage: festo-edcon [-h] [-i IP_ADDRESS] [-q] [--ethernetip] {position,pnu,parameter-set-load,tg1,tg9,tg102,tg111} ...

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i IP_ADDRESS, --ip-address IP_ADDRESS
                        IP address to connect to (default: 192.168.0.1).
  -q, --quiet           suppress output verbosity
  --ethernetip          use EtherNet/IP (instead of ModbusTCP) as underlying communication.

subcommands:
  {position,pnu,parameter-set-load,tg1,tg9,tg102,tg111}
                        Subcommand that should be called

Subcommand	Description
position	execute very basic positioning tasks.
pnu	read or write PNUs.
parameter-set-load	load a complete parameter set to a drive.
tg1	run a test sequence using telegram 1.
tg9	run a test sequence using telegram 9.
tg102	run a test sequence using telegram 102.
tg111	run a test sequence using telegram 111.

For more information use the help flag (festo-edcon [subcommand] -h).

festo-edcon-gui

Entry point to the GUI.

usage: festo-edcon-gui [-h] [-i IP_ADDRESS] [-q]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i IP_ADDRESS, --ip-address IP_ADDRESS
                        IP address to connect to (default: 192.168.0.1).
  -q, --quiet           suppress output verbosity

For more information use the help flag (festo-edcon-gui -h).